Contract as Promise

  • Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation
    By Charles Fried

    This book provides two purposes regarding the complex legal institution of the contract. The first is the theoretical purpose to demonstrate how contract law can be traced to and is determined by a small number of basic moral principles.

  • Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation
    By Charles Fried

    This book provides two purposes regarding the complex legal institution of the contract. The first is the theoretical purpose to demonstrate how contract law can be traced to and is determined by a small number of basic moral principles.

  • Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation
    By Charles Fried

    It moves from trust to promise to the nuts and bolts of contract law. The author shows that contract law has an underlying unifying moral and practical structure. This second edition retains the original text, and includes a new Preface.

  • Contract as Promise
    By Charles Fried

    This book displays the underlying structure of a complex body of law and integrates that structure with moral principles.

  • Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation
    By Charles Fried

    It moves from trust to promise to the nuts and bolts of contract law. The author shows that contract law has an underlying unifying moral and practical structure. This second edition retains the original text, and includes a new Preface.